The man who pushed America to war : the extraordinary life, adventures, and obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi / Aram Roston.
Roston, Aram.
2008
DS79.66.C45 R67 2008 (Mapit)
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Title The man who pushed America to war : the extraordinary life, adventures, and obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi / Aram Roston.
Author Roston, Aram.
ISBN 9781568583532 (alk. paper)
1568583532 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Nation Books, c2008.
Language English
Description xiv, 369 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number DS79.66.C45 R67 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 956.7044092 B
Summary If anyone were to get the most credit for pushing the United States to war in Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi, a wealthy exile who spent most of his life out of Iraq, would certainly be a leading contender. A convicted felon and a fugitive from justice in Jordan, Chalabi managed to charm and influence the top leaders of the United States. Those leaders gave him United States government money, which he would, in turn, use to lobby them. He then rode America's immense power, harnessing it to his interests. More so than Bush or Cheney, Chalabi and his followers steered the United States toward its fateful position in Iraq. This investigative biography by an NBC journalist tells the story of Chalabi as a gifted MIT mathematician, to his misadventures in the Middle East, to the invasion of Iraq.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-360) and index.
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Golden age, 1944-1958
Chalabi in America, 1962-1968
Beirut, 1971-1977
Petra Bank, 1977
Iran and Shiism, 1978-1988
Business with Saddam, 1980-1989
The collapse of the Chalabi empire, 1989-1990
The fall of Ahmad Chalabi, 1989
Desert Storm, 1990-1991
Recruitment, 1991
Going after Jordon, 1992
The founding of the Iraqi National Congress : audit by burglary and little coffins, 1991-1992
IBC Communications : the funding, 1992
Conviction, 1992
Guerrilla warrior, 1993-1995
Victory in Hong Kong, 1995
Tossed out in the cold, 1996
Rising again : Ahmad Chalabi's allies, 1997
Wooing the neocons, 1997-1998
Frozen assets and the Iraq trust
Forming INDICT
Ahmad Chalabi's law, 1998
The money returns
BKSH : representing Chalabi
The uses of September 11, 2001
September 11
a new direction
Saddam's airline hijacking school
The case of the underground wells
David Rose, 2001-2003
The man who invented the mobile labs, March 2002
Saddam's mistress, September 2002
The run-up to war, summer 2002-winter 2003
The committee for the liberation of Iraq, autumn 2002
The free Iraqi forces and the end of the Iraq liberation act, summer 2003-winter 2003
The birth of de-baathification, summer 2002
There is oil in Iraq
Getting ready, winter 2003
Entering Iraq, April 2003
The dossiers, 2003
An armored truck and $250 million, April 2003
De-baathification, part II, 2003-2004
Chalabi vs. Bremer, May 2003-April 2004
The UN gets a warning, summer 2003
The State of the Union, January 2004
BKSH at war, 2003-2004
Banking in Iraq, summer-fall 2003
Chalabi under siege, May 2003
The Iran connection
Weapons of mass destruction
Almost at the top
Inside deal, 2005
The vote, 2005-2006
The rescue of the journalist, 2005
Epilogue.

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